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Testing Too Much? - A Principal's Guide to Cutting Back Testing and Reclaiming Instructional Time - Bog af Philip A. Streifer - Paperback

There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Testing Too Much? provides three models to use in cutting back on non-mandated testing by 25% to help school leaders and teachers find ways to improve their instruction and the educational experiences of their students.

DKK 283.95

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Testing Too Much? - A Principal's Guide to Cutting Back Testing and Reclaiming Instructional Time - Bog af Philip A. Streifer - Hardback

There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Testing Too Much? provides three models to use in cutting back on non-mandated testing by 25% to help school leaders and teachers find ways to improve their instruction and the educational experiences of their students.

DKK 512.95

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Usability Testing - A Practical Guide for Librarians - Bog af Rebecca Blakiston - Paperback

Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? In this book, you will learn that in-house usability testing on a budget is not only feasible, but it is practical, sustainable, and has the potential to lead to remarkable improvements of the content, design, and layout of your website. Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians will teach you how to: .Make the case for usability testing .Define your audience and..

DKK 1014.95

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How Parents Can Help Kids Improve Test Scores - Taking the Stakes Out of Literacy Testing - Bog af Steven Schneider - Hardback

Steven Schneider's newly revised second edition of How Parents Can Help Kids Improve Test Scores: Taking the Stakes Out of Literacy Testing highlights the most recent literacy initiatives in America since the federal act of No Child Left Behind. His book has been redesigned to further help teachers and parents navigate through the maze of newly developed state standardized testing in reading and writing, so students may be able to achieve greater success.

DKK 868.95

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How Parents Can Help Kids Improve Test Scores - Taking the Stakes Out of Literacy Testing - Bog af Steven Schneider - Paperback

Steven Schneider's newly revised second edition of How Parents Can Help Kids Improve Test Scores: Taking the Stakes Out of Literacy Testing highlights the most recent literacy initiatives in America since the federal act of No Child Left Behind. His book has been redesigned to further help teachers and parents navigate through the maze of newly developed state standardized testing in reading and writing, so students may be able to achieve greater success.

DKK 455.95

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Understanding Personality through Projective Testing - Bog af Steven Tuber - Paperback

Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing provides a concise, nuanced depiction of six core aspects of personality within a psychodynamic/developmental framework. It then portrays how each of these domains can be assessed with four projective methods: the Rorschach, TAT, Sentence Completion and Animal Preference Tests. The strengths and heuristic value of each of the four methods are described individually and then integrated via case examples to provide a rich, comprehensive methodology..

DKK 652.95

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Standardized Testing Skills - Strategies, Techniques, Activities To Help Raise Students' Scores - Bog af Guinevere Durham - Paperback

These young children now experience the stress of having to \pass\ the test in order to be promoted (a process continued through high school graduation.). Standardized Testing Skills provides the materials that prepare teachers, parents and students for this undertaking.

DKK 330.95

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Standardized Testing Skills - Strategies, Techniques, Activities To Help Raise Students' Scores - Bog af Guinevere Durham - Hardback

These young children now experience the stress of having to \pass\ the test in order to be promoted (a process continued through high school graduation.). Standardized Testing Skills provides the materials that prepare teachers, parents and students for this undertaking.

DKK 594.95

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Our Results-Driven, Testing Culture - How It Adversely Affects Students' Personal Experience - Bog af Lyn Lesch - Paperback

This book is intended to be a discussion point for how to develop a healthy relationship between personal experience and academic learning-which in light of our current results driven, testing culture, is the real benefit of the book.

DKK 465.95

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Testing the Limits - George W. Bush and the Imperial Presidency - Bog - Paperback

This collaboration of distinguished presidential scholars offers one of the first book-length post-presidency analyses of President George W. Bush and his policies. Mark J. Rozell and Gleaves Whitney have assembled a varied list of contributors from both ends of the political spectrum, bringing together academics and professionals to provide a glimpse into the politics and policies that defined President George W. Bush''s presidency. Testing the Limits discusses all aspects of the Bush policy and..

DKK 466.95

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Testing the Limits - George W. Bush and the Imperial Presidency - Bog - Hardback

This collaboration of distinguished presidential scholars offers one of the first book-length post-presidency analyses of President George W. Bush and his policies. Mark J. Rozell and Gleaves Whitney have assembled a varied list of contributors from both ends of the political spectrum, bringing together academics and professionals to provide a glimpse into the politics and policies that defined President George W. Bush''s presidency. Testing the Limits discusses all aspects of the Bush policy and..

DKK 1338.95

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The Realities of Classroom Testing and Grading - A Guide to Performance Issues - Bog af Quentin Durham - Paperback

This book discusses a wide variety of generally taboo or ignored topics such as the multiple benefits of testing and grading beyond the obvious, realities of standardized exams, open book exams, teaching exam-taking, exam subjectivity and relevance, 'test wiley' students, cheating, parent conferences, grading methods that make sense, and lots more.

DKK 396.95

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The Realities of Classroom Testing and Grading - A Guide to Performance Issues - Bog af Quentin Durham - Hardback

This book discusses a wide variety of generally taboo or ignored topics such as the multiple benefits of testing and grading beyond the obvious, realities of standardized exams, open book exams, teaching exam-taking, exam subjectivity and relevance, 'test wiley' students, cheating, parent conferences, grading methods that make sense, and lots more.

DKK 721.95

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A History of U.S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963 - Bog af David M. Blades - Hardback

As states continue to pursue nuclear weaponry, nuclear testing remains an important political issue in the twenty-first century. This survey examines how and why the U.S. conducted nuclear tests from 1945 through 1963 and the resulting influence on key questions from normalization and de-normalization up to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963.

DKK 1201.95

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Deep Curriculum Alignment - Creating a Level Playing Field for All Children on High-Stakes Tests of Accountability - Bog af Fenwick W. English - Paper

This text explores the flaws in state mandated testing, advocating a more comprehensive approach to teaching and testing.

DKK 622.95

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Revisiting Dewey - Best Practices for Educating the Whole Child Today - Bog af Daniel W. Stuckart - Paperback

Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, high-stakes testing has become a ubiquitous feature of public school children''s daily rituals. Reform advocates argue that testing leads to greater alignment of the curriculum with teaching and learning, teacher and student accountability, and in some cases, a preservation of our cultural heritage. Opponents contend that testing results in prolific cheating, higher drop-out rates, and a narrowing curriculum with emphases on teaching to the..

DKK 674.95

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The Malfunction of US Education Policy - Bog af Richard P. Phelps - Hardback

The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness biased and inefficient information dissemination that has degraded US education research and policy since the year 2001, when a series of unfortunate disruptions began:¿first, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and federal imposition of an idiosyncratic and ineffectual testing program;¿second, the \big bang\ reorganization of the US education testing industry from a stable, cooperative oligopoly run..

DKK 526.95

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Adaptive Implementation - Navigating the School Improvement Landscape - Bog af Ryoko Yamaguchi - Hardback

Adaptive Implementation focuses on how practitioners and researchers together continue to improve their craft by systematically collecting data on adaptations, testing them out, and figuring out what works.

DKK 547.95

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Adaptive Implementation - Navigating the School Improvement Landscape - Bog af Ryoko Yamaguchi - Paperback

Adaptive Implementation focuses on how practitioners and researchers together continue to improve their craft by systematically collecting data on adaptations, testing them out, and figuring out what works.

DKK 283.95

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Testwise - Understanding Educational Assessment - Bog af Nora Odendahl - Paperback

Articles and books on educational testing written for specialists in the field are often inaccessible to non-specialists, whereas those written for the layperson may oversimplify or omit key concepts and issues. Testwise fills this gap by explaining these ideas at a level that is sophisticated but requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Testwise goes beyond the technical aspects of testing to explore historical and cultural themes, the roles that different stakeholders play, and possibilities..

DKK 718.95

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Stop Politically Driven Education - Subverting the System to Build a New School Model - Bog af Eldon Cap Lee - Paperback

This book is to help teachers redesign the system and philosophy of education, to refocus from a testing mentality to one that prepares all children for their future in their world.

DKK 266.95

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Teaching and Learning Science - Bog af Kenneth Tobin - Paperback

This book touches on many of the most controversial topics facing science educators and students today, including evolution, testing, homeschooling, ecology, and the achievement gaps faced by girls, children of color, and ESL learners.

DKK 880.95

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Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century - Bog - Paperback

Shows that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in areas such as standards, testing, teachers, or school choice requires careful analysis of the broader governing arrangements that influence their content, implementation, and impact.

DKK 456.95

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So You Want to Be a School Board Member? - Bog af William Hayes - Paperback

This work explains the role of the school board member, from election to taking office. Potential board members are introduced to issues they are likely to face, including school violence, high-stake testing, curriculum reform, and school choice.

DKK 501.95

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The First American Constitutions - Rlican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era - Bog af Willi Paul Adams - Pape

This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the US Constitution, and another chapter testing the \rlicanism over liberalism\ thesis against political ideas and institutional arangements that constitute the first states constitutions.